The Oyo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic
Party has berated security personnel in the state for allegedly
attacking students of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, who stormed the state
secretariat on Tuesday demanding a reduction in their tuition fees.
The students in their hundreds had converged on the secretariat with a demand that Governor Abiola Ajimobi reversed the fee hike which was approved by the PDP administration of immediate past Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala.
Policemen were reported to have dispersed the students who attempted to gain entrance into the secretariat with canisters of tear gas.
THE PUNCH had on Wednesday on its front page published a photograph of policemen brutalising one of the protesting students.
The PDP, in a statement by its state Secretary, Alhaji Bashir Akanbi, on Wednesday in Ibadan, the state capital observed that rather than using security personnel to brutalise the students who were on a peaceful protest, Ajimobi should fulfil his electoral promise to the students that he would slash their fees if elected.
The statement read, “The Peoples Democratic Party and its leadership in the state condemn in very strong terms the social unrest and attack on the innocent students of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, who embarked on a peaceful match to the Governor’s Office to demand for the actualisation of the promise of the ACN administration that their school fees would be reduced immediately it assumed office, only for them to be beaten and even stripped naked by security personnel attached to the governor’s office.
“And in just less than 24 hours after the inauguration of the Senator Abiola Ajimobi- led administration in the state, the peace enjoyed in the state was ruptured by the Alhaji Tokyo-led faction of the NURTW leaving at least two persons killed and several others injured, while property worth several millions of naira were destroyed, yet the government of the day has not come out to state its position on the development.”
The PDP urged the government to immediately rise to its responsibility and accede to the demands of the students so as not to allow the state to be plunged into unnecessary and avoidable unrest.
By Olalekan Adetayo, Ibadan Courtesy Of: Punch
The students in their hundreds had converged on the secretariat with a demand that Governor Abiola Ajimobi reversed the fee hike which was approved by the PDP administration of immediate past Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala.
Policemen were reported to have dispersed the students who attempted to gain entrance into the secretariat with canisters of tear gas.
THE PUNCH had on Wednesday on its front page published a photograph of policemen brutalising one of the protesting students.
The PDP, in a statement by its state Secretary, Alhaji Bashir Akanbi, on Wednesday in Ibadan, the state capital observed that rather than using security personnel to brutalise the students who were on a peaceful protest, Ajimobi should fulfil his electoral promise to the students that he would slash their fees if elected.
The statement read, “The Peoples Democratic Party and its leadership in the state condemn in very strong terms the social unrest and attack on the innocent students of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, who embarked on a peaceful match to the Governor’s Office to demand for the actualisation of the promise of the ACN administration that their school fees would be reduced immediately it assumed office, only for them to be beaten and even stripped naked by security personnel attached to the governor’s office.
“And in just less than 24 hours after the inauguration of the Senator Abiola Ajimobi- led administration in the state, the peace enjoyed in the state was ruptured by the Alhaji Tokyo-led faction of the NURTW leaving at least two persons killed and several others injured, while property worth several millions of naira were destroyed, yet the government of the day has not come out to state its position on the development.”
The PDP urged the government to immediately rise to its responsibility and accede to the demands of the students so as not to allow the state to be plunged into unnecessary and avoidable unrest.
By Olalekan Adetayo, Ibadan Courtesy Of: Punch
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